St Martins Preparatory School

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GRIMSBY

TA2608SE BARGATE
699-1/29/10 (East side)
No.63
St Martin's Preparatory School

GV II

House, now school. 1901 for George William Goddard, ship
chandler; possibly by HC Scaping of Grimsby. Red brick with
ashlar dressings; green slate roof. Cast-iron veranda to west
front; wooden conservatory. Edwardian Freestyle. Approximately
rectangular on plan: 2 rooms to main west front; 2-room,
central entrance-hall south front with conservatory to
south-east corner.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. West front of 4 irregular bays, with
recessed central bay between projecting single-bay sections
with a turret to the right corner. Central bay has
cross-window flanked by single-light windows; elaborate
veranda with slender quatrefoil columns, openwork arches and
balustraded balcony. Bay to left has 4-light window with
lintel and elaborate carved panel above. Bay to right has
cross window and narrow transomed windows to turret. String
course, first-floor sill band. Central bay has French window
to balcony with carved relief panel above. Left bay has
first-floor canted bay window with a tall parapet ramped up to
coped piers with cast-iron railings; right bay has
cross-window beneath stylized open pediment.
Turret has narrow transomed windows linked by flush band and
string course. Balustraded parapet to central bay, shaped
coped gables to side bays with flush bands and elaborate
relief panels with date and monogram; ball finials. Turret has
parapet with ball finials and stylized acutely-angled
triangular open pediments containing miniature obelisks; tall
octagonal spire.
Windows throughout have original plate-glass, moulded mullions
and transoms and moulded lintels, some with stylized open
pediments. Roof stack and end stack to left with central ribs
and corniced ashlar caps.
Right return, forming south entrance front, has main entrance
with brick pilasters and an ashlar Doric surround with a
segmental pediment and carved tympanum. Above this is a
cross-window and an elaborate gable similar to that on the
west front, with obelisks and scrollwork relief, balustraded
parapet and segmental pedimented section with ball finial.
To the right, a projecting gabled section with a ground-floor
canted bay window. Conservatory to rear right, 3 bays with

central canted bay: moulded brick plinth, continuous ashlar
sill band, wooden upper section with fluted pilasters, moulded
cornice; round-headed plate-glass windows with columned
mullions and small-paned panels above.
INTERIOR: staircase hall has arcaded screen with fluted square
columns, wooden imperial staircase with square Ionic column
balusters. Main rooms have original chimneypieces, ornate
plasterwork cornices and arches, especially elaborate in the
ground-floor north-west room, which also has deeply coved
ceiling with dentilated cornice and dado panelling.
A good example of a house built for one of the entrepreneurs
connected with the Grimsby fishing industry.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126;
Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126).





Listing NGR: TA2660208164

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